II international competition of dance Roseta Mauri 2004

Lynn Wallis graduated from the Royal Ballet Senior School in 1965 into the Royal Ballet Touring Company, becoming Ballet Mistress at the school in 1969, a position she held until 1982, when she was made Deputy Principal. During this time she reproduced a great many ballets from classical repertoire for the school performances at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and other venues. In 1984, at the invitation of Erik Bruhn, she joined the National Ballet of Canada, as Artistic Co-ordinator, and in 1986 she became Associate Artistic Director, with Valerie Wilder, and Co-Artistic Director from 1987 to 1989. In 1990, she was appointed Deputy Artistic Director of English National Ballet with special responsibility for Mid-scale touring, the Education and Community Unit, Choreographic workshop and English National Ballet School.

Lynn Wallis joined the Royal Academy of Dance in 1994 as Artistic Director and is responsible for setting and maintaining the standards of dance training world-wide, developing the Academy’s Syllabus and planning courses internationally for students. In 2001 she became Chair of the RAD’s Board of Examiners. Lynn was appointed Honorary President of the Greek region of the RAD in June 2000. More recently she has been involved in the introduction of the new marking system and the accreditation of RAD examinations by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority in England and its partner regulatory authorities in Wales and Northern Ireland.

Lynn was chairman of an artistic panel of dance professionals who wrote The Foundations of Classical Ballet Technique and was instrumental in leading the artistic panel in writing the sequel, The Progressions of Classical Ballet Technique. In 2001 Lynn was nominated and short-listed for the European Women of Achievement Awards.

Trained in classical, jazz and contemporary dance (Limon and Graham), her style combines the technique, expression and the energy changes in order to achieve good freedom in movement.

She has a way to work in which either a glance, a small gesture, a difficult turn, a great jump or a fall are equally important.

Director of the Anna Sánchez Companyia de Dansa from 1985 to 1990, she is now Director of the Companyia Inconnexa, founded in 2002, and of the Varium School of Dance of Barcelona since 1987.

She is the Artistic Director of the International Dance Festival of Sant Cugat since 2000. She has worked and still does at many international courses all over Europe. Furthermore, she colaborates as a guest teacher at the schools of Epsedanse (Montpeller), Cafedanse (Ais de Provença) and James Carles (Tolosa of Llenguadoc). She has also worked as a guest teacher in different companies such as S.O.A.P (Rui Horta), Metros (Ramon Oller), Marta Carrasco, Trànsit (Maria Rovira), Mar Gómez, Norrdanse (Sweden) and Ballet Preljocaj (France).

Due to her teaching experience, she has been granted the recognition of the French Ministry of Culture, being allowed to give classes at the official conservatoires of dance of all the country.

He studied music in the Conservatoire of Bilbao, where he was awarded with a first prize in the International Contest of Piano.

He continued his studies of piano in Caracas, and finally finished them in the University of Indiana,USA. He has played as a soloist in the most important Symphonic Orchestras of Central and South America, and also the Symphonic Orchestra of Bilbao. He went on long tours around Europe and the Soviet Union.

In the United States of America, he has performed at the Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall of the Lincoln Centre, Cami Hall, Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, and also in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and San Francisco.

He has also worked as a pianist at the American Ballet Theatre, Dance Theatre of Harlem. During long periods of time he accompanied the dancers and choreographers such as: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Alexandra Danílova, Anna Sokolov, Jerome Robbins, etc.

Among his recordings, we emphasize some CD music for Ballet and series entitled “Valses Venezolanos”.